Lets be honest, when asked a direct question of 'is actively avoiding tax wrong or unfair' and most people would say yes.

Ask them would they stop going to starbucks or amazon, etc and they wouldn't. We are often outraged but rarely actually act upon it.

With the best, thats a good bit of PR, though I would say the Bedford team, theres, like, you know, 13 blokes who can get together at the weekend to have a game together, which doesnt point to expansion of the game. Point, yeah go on!

Actively avoiding Tax is neither wrong nor unfair, we all do it and the Tax structure in this country is there to allow people and corporations to do just that.
Up until 2000 most of the homebuyers in the UK received MIRAS, would these be the same "most people" who now think tax avoidance schemes are wrong?

Tax evasion is quite a different matter but don't lose sight of the fact that all these corporations and individuals are doing is taking advantage of the law as it stands. If there was a massive loophole that effectively said "anyone supporting Accrington Stanley can claim 100% of their earnings as tax-free then the membership for their supporters club would suddenly be close to the working population of the UK, the fault would not lie with the people taking advantage of the loophole, or for that matter Accrington Stanley FC, but with the government that allowed a loophole that massive and that ridiculous to exist. Probably Thatcher's fault. That or the RFL / RFU.

Actively avoiding Tax is neither wrong nor unfair, we all do it and the Tax structure in this country is there to allow people and corporations to do just that.Up until 2000 most of the homebuyers in the UK received MIRAS, would these be the same "most people" who now think tax avoidance schemes are wrong?

Tax evasion is quite a different matter but don't lose sight of the fact that all these corporations and individuals are doing is taking advantage of the law as it stands. If there was a massive loophole that effectively said "anyone supporting Accrington Stanley can claim 100% of their earnings as tax-free then the membership for their supporters club would suddenly be close to the working population of the UK, the fault would not lie with the people taking advantage of the loophole, or for that matter Accrington Stanley FC, but with the government that allowed a loophole that massive and that ridiculous to exist. Probably Thatcher's fault. That or the RFL / RFU.

Actively avoiding Tax is neither wrong nor unfair, we all do it and the Tax structure in this country is there to allow people and corporations to do just that.Up until 2000 most of the homebuyers in the UK received MIRAS, would these be the same "most people" who now think tax avoidance schemes are wrong?

Tax evasion is quite a different matter but don't lose sight of the fact that all these corporations and individuals are doing is taking advantage of the law as it stands. If there was a massive loophole that effectively said "anyone supporting Accrington Stanley can claim 100% of their earnings as tax-free then the membership for their supporters club would suddenly be close to the working population of the UK, the fault would not lie with the people taking advantage of the loophole, or for that matter Accrington Stanley FC, but with the government that allowed a loophole that massive and that ridiculous to exist. Probably Thatcher's fault. That or the RFL / RFU.

I see your point but, at the time, MIRAS was something that existed to encourage people to buy their own homes.

Although a lot of large corporations are not breaking the law as it stands, they are breaking "the spirit of the law" by having taxation specialists fine-tooth combing the regulations for loopholes that are basically the holes left in the laws by not correctly wording the law.

The loopholes are not put in to reward companies who's tax advisors are clever enough to spot them.

I see the gas and water companies are the latest you can add to the list.
You CAN blame Thatcher for that, flogging them off to the French and Germans simply to satisfy an ideology without a single thought for the consequences.

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Lets be honest, when asked a direct question of 'is actively avoiding tax wrong or unfair' and most people would say yes.

Ask them would they stop going to starbucks or amazon, etc and they wouldn't. We are often outraged but rarely actually act upon it.

Although I think I heard something on the radio about a boycott being organised against organisations who dodge tax. The authorities could do with publishing a league table before that gets off the ground.

For my part, I will never make a purchase from Starbucks again.

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Although I think I heard something on the radio about a boycott being organised against organisations who dodge tax. The authorities could do with publishing a league table before that gets off the ground.